The Press: Beaver's Bax

To me Munich will always remain the most courageous, idealistic achievement any British statesman has accomplished in the past hundred years. Others think differently. . . .

These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is...

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